Kennedy Sanders died alongside fellow Georgia reservists William Jerome Rivers and Breonna Alexsondria Moffett
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During their last phone conversation, Spc Kennedy Sanders told her mother that she wanted to take her military career to a new level when she returned home to Georgia from the Middle East. She also revealed, to her mother’s disapproval, that she was thinking of buying a motorcycle.
The 24-year-old army reservist and her family were already looking ahead to summer when Sanders was scheduled to return to Waycross, the hometown where she helped coach soccer and basketball and worked at a pharmacy while taking college courses with the aim of becoming an X-ray technician.